Meat tax

[TroglocratsRdumb]

MSN

The True Animal Protein Price (TAPP) Coalition gave comments at the 2024 U.N. Climate Change (COP29) Conference Monday urging countries to begin taxing meat.

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued a report Friday weighing the pros and cons of a tax on certain foods, including meat. TAPP Coalition raised the topic at COP29 this week, suggesting that countries should tax meat and subsidize vegetables while describing the U.S. and some Western nations as a “laggard” relative to other U.N. countries when it comes to its food pricing policies.

Comment:
The Left Wingers want to use the mythical manmade climate change as an excuse to tax protein so that people can't afford meat.
Climate change is a tool of fear used to scare dumb people.
Manmade climate change is an unproven hypothesis.

 

[petro]

Liberals need to be smacked upside the head with an overpriced ham bone.

 

[1srelluc]

 

[MisterBeale]

‘We lost’: How COP29 ended with a deal that made the whole world unhappy​

‘We lost’: How COP29 ended with a deal that made the whole world unhappy

Under pressure to step up global climate aid, the world’s richest countries secured nothing less than a diplomatic coup in Baku.

grist.org

". . The U.S. and Europe, hesitant to guarantee more government grants as aid-skeptical nationalists gain traction with their voters, aligned themselves against negotiating blocs with different but overlapping demands. The influential “African group,” led by the mild-mannered Mohamed of Kenya, was pushing a $1.3 trillion target with a focus on funding climate adaptation infrastructure. The Alliance of Small Island States, led by the outspoken Samoan environment minister Cedric Schuster, wanted a minimum allocation guaranteed to its members alone, given their unique vulnerability to sea level rise, plus money to recover from already-inevitable losses. And the massive G77, which represents almost all developing countries, was standing behind China as it resisted calls to join the U.S. and Europe as an official contributor.

As the conference’s second and final week neared its close, negotiators found themselves leaving the talks after the official shuttle buses had departed, giving them no choice but to hail cabs from the side of an eight-lane highway. The conference venue itself became a visual metaphor for the stalemate: Talks took place in a makeshift structure erected on the floor of the Baku sports stadium, positioning negotiators like gladiators in a coliseum.

“We are exhausted,” said Edith Kateme-Kasajja, a climate finance negotiator for Uganda, during the first week. “They are making this impossible for us.”

Trump’s GOP at UN climate talks: We’re in charge​

Trump’s GOP at UN climate talks: We’re in charge now

In a swaggering press conference at COP29, House Republicans aggressively touted oil, gas, and coal — but kept their options open.

grist.org

". . . In a swaggering press conference that took place just a few hundred feet from where international negotiators have spent a week hashing out a transition away from fossil fuels, the GOP delegation delivered an aggressive message in support of oil, gas, and even coal — all while framed by signs that said “United Nations Climate Change.” (The Congressional delegation is officially bipartisan, but the two Democratic Representatives in Baku did not attend the press conference.)

U.S. Representative August Pfluger, who represents Texas’ oil-rich Permian Basin and is leading the GOP’s COP delegation, suggested that the U.S. should once again exit the 2015 Paris climate agreement. As the leader of the House of Representatives’ energy committee, Pfluger also emphasized the incoming Congress’ power to repeal key pieces of Biden’s climate policies (policies that were passed, in part, to get the U.S. within reach of the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius). The press conference came off as a direct rebuke to the message delivered by the official U.S. delegation.

“Last week, people in the United States overwhelmingly supported President Donald Trump’s promise to restore America’s energy dominance and lead the world in energy expansion,” he said.

The four other Republicans joining Pfluger on stage echoed this message with a grab bag of pro-fossil fuel stances. Troy Balderson, who represents a part of Ohio with plentiful shale gas, mounted a defense of fracking. Morgan Griffith, a veteran representative who hails from a coal-rich area of western Virginia, expressed support for so-called clean coal power outfitted with carbon capture technology, as well as natural gas mined from coal beds. . . "

 

[Unkotare]

Uh-oh

If there is a tax on meat, I'll get a HUGE bill. It will be hard to pay, and take a long time. We can't let them erect a policy like this.

 

[Thunk]

As long as every cent of that "meat tax" goes to me...I'm OK with it

 

[Captain Caveman]

There's not a great deal of difference in agricultural co2 between meat and vegetables.

I would say most fruit and veg are imported into the UK, easier to farm chickens and livestock, the wet weather ruins crops.

It's a balanced meal anyhow. A chicken breast or steak with potatoes, peas, and carrots. Miss the meat out, you'll end up all pale, weak, and obnoxious like the vegans.